Example sentences for: vaughan

How can you use “vaughan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Vaughan Williams's chilly symphony that developed out of his music for the “British hero” movie Scott of the Antarctic (1948) was actually entitled Sinfonia Antartica (1953), which seems rather perverse.

  • Hanks and Hodges say that it is an English name of unknown origin but hint that it may be an anglicization of Welsh Baughan (found also as Vaughan ), a diminutive of Baugh , ultimately from bach `little.

  • Vaughan's preoccupation leads him to not only ponder the sexually charged road deaths of the famous (James Dean, Jayne Mansfield, Albert Camus), but to hang around accident sites, photographing them and later replicating the contorted postures of the victims in his trysts with prostitutes.

  • People well-known in the entertainment world, such as Frankie Vaughan, are definitely not mentioned.

  • As James, Helen, and eventually Catherine are drawn into Vaughan's world, they discover that he leads a cult of sorts, which includes Gabrielle (Rosanna Arquette), who gravitated toward Vaughan after an accident that left her encased in a complicated leather-and-steel body brace.


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